Giacobbe Giusti, VINCENZO FOPPA: Boy Reading Cicero, Wallace Collection, London

Giacobbe Giusti, VINCENZO FOPPA: Boy Reading Cicero, Wallace Collection, London

Giacobbe Giusti, Vincenzo Foppa
Virgin of the Book c. 1475, Milan
Born	Vincenzo Foppa c. 1427-30 Bagnolo Mella, Italy
Died	c. 1515-16 Brescia, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Notable work	Crucifixion Portinari Chapel The Young Cicero Reading Adoration of the Kings
Movement	Italian Renaissance

Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427 – c. 1515) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School. He spent his career working for the Sforzafamily, Dukes of Milan, in Pavia, as well as various other patrons throughout Lombardy and Liguria. He lived and worked in his native Brescia during his later years.

Early life

Very little is known about the early life and training of Foppa. He was born in Bagnolo Mella, a small commune near the city of Brescia. At the time, there were few esteemed painters in the region, and the art scene in Brescia was lacking. It is therefore likely that Foppa had to seek artistic training elsewhere. Some of his earliest exposures to art were likely frescoes painted by Gentile da Fabriano in the Broletto Chapel in Brescia and the woven Annunciation by Jacopo Bellini. The latter artist was one of the strongest influences on him, and it is possible that Foppa was directly apprenticed to Bellini. He also may have been apprenticed to Bonifacio Bembo. Some historians suggest that Foppa may have had early training in Padua with Francesco Squarcione, though his earliest works are more stylistically reminiscent of Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano. It is most likely that Foppa went to Verona for his training.^[1]

Notable Works

• Madonna and Child with Angels, c.1450, Florence, Berenson Collection
• Crucifixion, 1456, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
• St. Jerome Penitent, c.1460, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
• Madonna of the Book, 1460-1468, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• Madonna and Child, 1460-1470, Berlin, Staatliche Museen
• Boy Reading Cicero, c.1464, London, Wallace Collection
• Frescoes of the Portinari Chapel, 1464–1468, Milan, Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio
  • Four Doctors of the Church
  • Eight Busts of Saints
  • Four Scenes from the Life of St. Peter Martyr :
    • Cloud Miracle
    • Miracle of the False Madonna
    • Miracle of Narni
    • Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona
  • Annunciation
  • Assumption of the Virgin
• St. Augustine, 1465-1470, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• St. Theodore, 1465-1470, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• St. Christopher, c.1470, Denver, Denver Art Museum
• Evangelists, 1477, Brescia, Carmelite Church of Santa Maria, Averoldi chapel
• Madonna and Child with an Angel, 1479-1480, Florence, Uffizi
• Bottigella Altarpiece, c.1486, Pavia, Pinacoteca Malaspina
• St. Francis receiving the stigmata and St. Giovanni Battista, 1488-1489, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• Saint Sebastian, c.1489, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
• Madonna and Child in a Landscape, c.1490, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Altarpiece, c.1490, Oratory of Our Lady of the Castle, Savona, with Ludovico Brea
• Madonna and Child, 1490-1495, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
• Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, c.1485, Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Brivio, 1495, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
• Portrait of an Old Gentleman, 1495-1500, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• St. Anthony of Padua, 1495-1500, Washington, National Gallery of Art
• San Bernardino of Siena, 1495-1500, Washington, National Gallery of Art
• Altarpiece of Santa Maria delle Grazie, 1500-1510, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
• Adoration of the Magi, c.1500, London, National Gallery

Vincenzo Foppa.

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Foppa, Vincenzo.

1. ^ Jump up to:^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m}Ffoulkes, Constance J.; Maiocchi, Rodolfo (1909). Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, Founder of the Lombard School. London: Lane.
2. Jump up^ Jones, Howard; Kilpatrick, Ross (2007). « Cicero, Plutarch, and Vincenzo Foppa: Rethinking the Medici Bank Fresco (London, the Wallace Collection, Inv. P 538) ». International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 13 (3): 369–383.
3. Jump up^ Waterhouse, E.K. (1950). « The Fresco by Foppa in the Wallace Collection ». The Burlington Magazine. 92 (567): 176–177.
4. Jump up^ Bernstein, J. Gitlin (1981). « Science and Eschatology in the Portinari Chapel ». Arte Lombarda. 26 (60): 33–40.
5. Jump up^ Urry, Serena (2004). « Technical Findings in Vincenzo Foppa’s: Adoration of the Child with Saint Benedict and Angels ». Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 78: 30–39.
6. Jump up^ Dunkerton, Jill; Plazzotta, Carol (2001). « Vincenzo Foppa’s ‘Adoration of the Kings' ». National Gallery Technical Bulletin. 22: 18–28.
7. Jump up^ Welch, Evelyn Samuels (1985). « New Documents for Vincenzo Foppa ». The Burlington Magazine. 127 (986): 296–300.

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Giacobbe Giusti, FRANCESCO PESELLINO: Virgin and Child with Six Saints’, Metropolitan, New York

Giacobbe Giusti, FRANCESCO PESELLINO: Virgin and Child with Six Saints’, Metropolitan, New York

Virgin and Child with Six Saints’, small (25 x 23 cm) temperaon panel painting by Pesellino, c. 1450, Metropolitan, New York

Giacobbe Giusti, FRANCESCO PESELLINO: Virgin and Child with Six Saints’, Metropolitan, New York

’ Virgin and Child with Six Saints’, small (25 x 23 cm) temperaon panel painting by Pesellino, c. 1450, Metropolitan, New York

Francesco Pesellino (probably 1422–July 29, 1457), also known as Francesco di Stefano, Il Pesellino, Francesco Peselli, and Francesco di Stefano Pesellino was an Italian (Florentine) painter. His father was the painter Stefano di Francesco (died 1427), and his maternal grandfather was the painter Giuliano Pesello(1367–1446), from whose name the diminutive nickname of « Pesellino » arose. After the death of his father in 1427, the young Francesco Pesellino went to live with his grandfather, Giuliano Pesello, adopting his name. Francesco Pesellino remained in his grandfather’s studio until the latter’s death, when he joined the studio of Filippo Lippi (ca.1406-1469). He married in 1442, and probably joined the Florence painters’ guild in 1447. In the following years he made a reputation with small, highly finished, works, either religious subjects for predellas or private devotions, or secular subjects, often for insetting into furniture or panelling.

Pesellino died in Florence in 1457, at only 35, cutting short a career with great promise. His style « anticipates the developments of later Florentine painters such as Verrocchio and the Pollaiuoli« .^[1]

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The permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the Europeanmasters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It opened on February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.

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The Met’s permanent collection is curated by seventeen separate departments, each with a specialized staff of curators and scholars, as well as six dedicated conservation departments and a Department of Scientific Research.^[10] The permanent collection includes works of art from classical antiquityand ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art.^[11] The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world.^[12] A great number of period rooms, ranging from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met’s galleries.^[13] In addition to its permanent exhibitions, the Met organizes and hosts large traveling shows throughout the year.^{[citation needed]}

The current chairman of the board, Daniel Brodsky, was elected in 2011^[14] and became chairman three years after director Philippe de Montebello retired at the end of 2008.^[15][16]

On 1 March 2017, the BBC reported that Daniel Weiss, the Met’s president and COO, would also temporarily act as CEO for the museum.^[17] Following the departure of Thomas P. Campbell as the Met’s director and CEO on June 30, 2017,^[18] the search for a new director of the Museum was assigned to the human resources firm Phillips Oppenheim to present a new candidate for the position « by the end of the fiscal year in June » of 2018.^[19] The next director will report to Weiss as the current president of the museum.^[20]

In April 2018, Max Hollein was named director.^[21]

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